Statutory rape laws refer to the laws that protect minors from sexual abuse. ... Therefore, engaging in sexual contact with such people is considered a rape case. ... In addition, a significant number of individuals who serves as a statutory rape in prisons are women. This has made some decisions regarding rape cases unfair and discriminatory to the boys. ... It is prudent that the statutory rape laws be made neutral in the sense that in the event that an older individual engage in sex with the opposite sex aged 15, then, statutory rape occurs. ...

• Word Count: 1893
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Leo, a career criminal, was later convicted of kidnapping and raping a seven year old girl and eventually hung himself in his prison cell. ... Nearly six months pregnant, Aileen claims that she had been raped by an older man in the neighborhood. ... She claimed that Richard raped her. ... She had been physically abused at the hands of her grandfather and allegedly raped at an early age. ... While in prison, Aileen would frequently refuse meals as she believed the prison guards were trying to poison her. ...

• Word Count: 1530
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• Grade Level: High School

This law was put into effect after the violent rape and murder of a little girl named Megan. ... Once Megan was in the house Timmendeuas strangled her with a belt, then began to violently rape and murder her. ... They decided unanimously that Timendequas should get Calloway 2 death by injection instead of life in prison without parole (U.S. ... Since Megan's Law, there were 607,310 cases of rape and other type of sexual assault in 1992 but only345,670 in 1995 which is a drop of more than 30% in Calloway 5 those three years. ...

• Word Count: 2265
• Approx Pages: 9
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• Grade Level: High School

Three soldiers gang rape a female soldier. A commanding officer holds down a woman as he threatens her with a charge of adultery -- which would end her military career and send her to prison -- if she tells anyone " (Rosen). ... The Navy also has a program to try and prevent sexual abuse and rape. ...

• Word Count: 1437
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[Moe12] Another study done in 2008 by Ulla Bjorndal and Bjorg Norli concluded that 72% of the prostitutes they interviewed were victims of violent acts such as biting, slapping, choking, raping, punching etc. ... [Wei06] Weitzer also points out that all the studies done on prostitution rely on convenience samples instead of random samples therefore the claim that 70-80% of prostitutes have been raped or assaulted is inaccurate. ... [Nie10] In 1998, Sweden made the purchase of sexual services a criminal act with a maximum of six months in prison. ...

• Word Count: 1693
• Approx Pages: 7
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate